The Summer of a Lifetime Starts at Host Rally!
What is Host Rally?
Over the next few days, our Day Camps team will be all-hands-on-deck for one of their biggest events of the year—Host Rally! WinShape Camps for Communities will take their day camps experience to 80+ cities around the country in 2025! (more on that later) In order to bring WinShape to a community, our team partners with a host church and a locally-owned Chick-fil-A restaurant in the area.
WinShape provides the Summer Staff, programming, and most of the equipment to help teleport campers into a whole new world while never (or barely) leaving their home zip code. However, while camp is in town for just 5 days, a ton of work goes into making those 5 days happen. That’s where our church hosts come in!
Host Rally is an annual training and equipping event where camp hosts from all over the country are brought together to not only kick off their camp preparation season, but also to experience spiritually enriching, community-building moments. Host Rally includes training sessions, breakouts, worship and speakers meant to inspire church hosts for the incredible work they do year-round in their community. And of course, like with any WinShape event, a lot of FUN can be expected.
What to Expect at Host Rally
At Host Rally we gather to equip, connect, and enrich ministry leaders for the purpose of impacting communities with the message of Jesus Christ.
This mission statement anchors and informs every element of our time together. It’s our privilege to partner with you, and we don’t take your presence for granted. Thank you for carving out the space and time to be with us. Our commitment to reaching your community with the message of Jesus Christ comes along with a continued commitment to invest in you over the next few days.
While at Host Rally, you can expect to be:
- Equipped for the ministry of camp in your community and for the impact that will spread over the other 51 weeks of the year.
- Connected with a valuable network of people who are working in the same spaces, facing the same burdens, and aiming for the same end goal.
- Enriched in your life and work through relevant resources, information and a few days of spiritual investment.
Be on the lookout for these priorities practically embodied in each element of your Host Rally experience. And now—all hands on deck as we explore this year’s Camp theme, Uncharted!
Host Rally 2025 Sessions will include talks from keynote speakers like Miles Fidell, Dr. Ammie Akin, Gerald Fadayomi, and WinShape Camps’ very own Senior Director, Chris Witt. You can read all of our Session Speaker bios here. In addition to powerful session moments, Hosts will get to choose from a range of Workshops that will teach them everything from camp scholarships and gathering volunteers to marketing camp in their community and partnering with other organizations to make a lasting impact.
Keep up with Host Rally
Join us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter on February 3rd-5th as we share a few highlights from the event! We will also be sharing photos from the event on Waldo Photos, which you can access here. (Join Code: winshape25)
We can’t wait to see you soon for the Summer of a Lifetime! Interested in hosting camp in your community? Check this out.
